APOSTASY: Legendary Chilean Thrash Legion Reissues 2021 Masterpiece "Death Return" on Vinyl.

We’re proud to bring you the immense third full-length album in thirty five years from Chile's legendary thrash legion Apostasy, finally reissued for the first time ever with proper vinyl mastering from the source mixes and with a brand new graphic layout. "Death Return" vinyl is available now on limited edition neon yellow vinyl and standard black vinyl via all our channels for North America and via Fallen Temple in Europe.

The unchallenged sonic assault sees the Chilean masters rise to unseen peaks of excellence and destruction as they unleash the most towering and punishing beast in their three-decade-plus career and harness the quintessence of total thrash domination. This is not only the glorious past of speed metal's finest hour reclaiming its darkened throne, but the future of the genre all together. A dark future in which thrash metal reconnects with its evil and nefarious roots to summon complete hell on earth and reignite the black flame first sparked by bands like Slayer, Sodom and Sepultura back in the mid 80s when the genre was still very much a vessel for apocalyptic visions of a world drowned in blood, war, violence and evil. In a perfect and flawless forty-minute assault of war-torn aggression and shellshocking intensity, Apostasy deliver an absolute payload of death and terror, discharged at breakneck speed and weaponized into form by an implacable firestorm of blackened riffs, ominous atmospheres, razowrire leads and malefic screams ripping from he bowels of hell.

"Best kept secret" or "underrated" are terms too easy to toss around when it comes to Chile's legendary thrash legion Apostasy. All of those remain understatements that don't even begin to describe the true power and brilliance of one of South America's greatest ever underground metal bands, and conversely, the unacceptable and unexplainable lack of broader recognition they've struggled with over the decades. Apostasy emerged in the late 80s from Chile's metal underworld with a dark and evil trash assault which was perhaps even too ahead of its time and uncompromising for the time and place in which it emerged. Reminiscent of darker practitioners like (early) Sepultura, Slayer, Sodom, Kreator, Destruction etc, Apostasy have always treaded the outlines of the extreme, carving out a recognizable identity for themselves by always keeping a foot in the occult and esoteric shadow of black and death metal while staying true to thrash metal's militarized and belligerent ways as we've come to know it through its western most popular acts. The band's origins and first era can be traced back to the early frontline of Chile's Valparaíso metal scene in late 80's, in an epoch in which thrash was still a rising new threat traveling at supersonic speed on the heels of the success of Slayer's and Metallica's first legendary albums from the mid 80's. Apostasy's first incarnation emerged spearheaded by multi-instrumentalist Cristián Silva in the wake of this metal renaissance ignited by the legendary first ever thrash wave, a short yet fruitful burst which culminated and ended with the 1991 debut album "Sunset of the End", after which the band dissolved into the same obscurity it had emerged from, living almost literally by by thrash's infamous dogma: live fast, die young. Thirty years later, Silva decided that Apostasy hadn't quite said everything it had originally been created for, so he assembled a new lineup and initiated the band's triumphant return from the shadows of oblivion, issuing a string of demos before returning in 2018 with its sophomore comeback album, "The Sign of Darkness", a wrathful and weaponized speed metal beast that saw the band full-frontally embrace the darkest fringes of extreme metal while elevating its ancestral trash identity to a new modern height of destructiveness. How the band could demonstrate to be a vanguard at the forefront of trash transformation across three decades is anyone's guess, but despite its long hiatus it was as if the band had never ceased to exist, and at its every (re)emergence Apostasy demonstrated that no matter the era it was active in, it always represented and stood by the the genre's most uncompromising and visionary underground fringe. In 2020 "The Unknown Path" EP followed (self-released by the band on cassette and reissued on cassette in 2022 by Sentient Ruin for western audiences) showcasing a more meticulous approach to production and an even more pronounced convergence from traditional thrash toward the darker spectrum of black and speed metal. This EP was essentially a premonition to the band's most triumphant and dominating work, "Death Return", a new 2021 full-length offering which saw Apostasy fully morphed into an otherworldly dark speed metal fire-breathing beast. Fusing the unforgettable wrath of Slayer, early Sepultura and Sodom with the obscure and malevolent crafts of Chile's contemporary and now flourishing underground death and and black metal cults, "Death Return" emerged from the South American extreme metal underground like a dark weapon of total annihilation, standing tall as one of the greatest accomplishments in modern thrash, and as one of the greatest South American underground thrash records in recent years.



VESSEL OF INIQUITY: UK Industrial Black Metal/Noise/Grindcore Act Issues Annihilating New Album "The Path Unseen" - Track Premiered at Last Rites.

We’re proud to announce that UK industrial black metal/noise/grind nightmare Vessel of Iniquity is back with its third official full-length album "The Path Unseen", a rogue abomination set to blow yet another smoldering wound into the fabric of consciousness via unconceivable deconstructions of reality and through a deviant approach to music creation aimed at harnessing absolute terror and mimicking the final stages of sanity.

The new work has been introduced by notorious underground music blog Last Rites who in reveling the opening track “Blood Magic” via an exclusive premiere has remarked how the track “evokes hypnotism though brutality […] both in terms of technicality and deliberately sterile, cold, inhuman delivery.” - you can read their lengthily feature and check out the track HERE.

Introducing eight-string guitars for the first time ever, on "The Path Unseen" sole mastermind A. White has made a stylistic and sonic shift aimed at rendering his beast an even more lethal and oppressive force than ever before. The switch to eight strings has given the project abyss-like traits, as a death-bearing payload of low end frequencies and bottom end crush-depth of near-inescapable traits is added into the mix rendering the project essentially irreversibly damaging. The unrelenting outreach and research for the most weaponized and exaggerated forms of aural annihilation conceivable are now ever so evident in the project as Vessel of Iniquity morphs once again, release after release, seeking new ways to dissolve reality and suck the life out of its surroundings with black hole-like constructs of inescapable and all-devouring terror, which also showcase with unmistakeable evidence the fiercely experimental and constantly evolving nature of the project. Aside from the outlandish experiments in inconceivable fretwork annihilation, the catastrophic work is completed by its staple assault of carpet bombing drum machines, tectonic noise constructs and monstrous industrial abstractions that all play their unforgiving role in assembling this obliterating sonic nightmare of the underground which is becoming more and more the embodiment of pure fear and terror and an increasingly recognizable heirloom to the endless quest for the absolute extreme.

British multi-instrumentalist, soundscaper, and audial deconstructor A.White has been hammering away at some of the underground’s most puzzling, obscure, and terrifying artifacts for the better part of the last two decades. Largely recluse and solitary in his activities aside from a few defunct collaborative efforts, most of his body of work has revolved around his home studio and both the possibilities and the limitations which such a setup implicates, spanning various declinations of ambient and experimental work that have as connecting thread the extensive use of drum machines, electronic soundscapes, industrial deconstructionism and esoteric sound design, always coupled with his undying love for metal guitar, bass and vocals, specifically the extreme end of the spectrum. Influenced by bands like Coil, Godflesh, Napalm Death, Mayhem and Esoteric, White’s artistic output has assumed various forms throughout the years with self-containment and solitude as the founding basis of nearly his every work and loads of personal knowledge and deeply rooted and explored interests spanning from history to philosophy, to ancient civilizations, science and occultism, all being thrown in the mix as conceptual backdrops to his nightmarish compositions. This union of self-contained musical skills and mediums, meticulous solitary work, and endless personal interests has led to the creation of various obscure and highly underrated ambient/black metal/industrial projects over the years, many of which date as far back as 1995, from Crown of Ascension to the Egyptian mythology-themed black metal experimentalism of Thoraxembalmer, all the way to industrial funeral doom of Uncertainty Principle and of the multi-member project The Null Collective. And his most recent extreme metal project Vessel of Iniquity is the sum of all these years of self-learning, sonic exploration and boundless curiosity toward new realms of the extreme and of the unknown, all of which in recent years have helped White push his creativity into new and even more unthinkable and unseen territories of total auditory abandon. Continuing the trend of never adhering to any scene or benefitting from any kind of mainstream underground exposure, through its 2017 defining self-tiled debut album, the followup LP “Void of Infinite Horror” and a string of more experimental EPs and digital releases, Vessel of Iniquity has taken the sincretisms of black metal, grindcore, and industrial noise to its most remote outer limits, establishing itself as a puzzling and unseen beacon of extremism unlike anything else existing in the underground.


HATE PROPAGANDA: Portuguese Bestial Black/Death Metal War Criminals Reissue Annihilating 2019 Debut MLP "World War 666" On Vinyl For First Time Ever.

Hate Propaganda's far too overlooked 2019 debut MLP "World War 666" sees a much needed reissue on vinyl, remastered and enhanced by brand new artwork commissioned for the purpose by Xerox master P. Van Trigt. The 10” vinyl weapon of mass annihilation is available now worldwide via all our channels.

When it was first released on cassette tape back in 2019 by War Arts Productions, this war-torn debut offering of primeval warnoise by the mysterious Portuguese war criminals stood out immediately as a crown jewel debut for the genre and as one one of the year's most definitive and underrated manifestations of extreme metal's most hateful and berserk fringe. Packing in nineteen minutes of absolute hatred, the annihilating MLP manifests as a nightmare hallucination of complete violence and negativity, evoking eons of perennial apocalyptic global planetary war and terror on the wings of its nefarious design of achieving maximum annihilation in the shortest amount of time possible. To harness this bleak pantheon of ruin, the Portuguese conquerors have assembled a weaponized and uncontrolled sonic chain reaction where grindcore, black metal, death metal and hardcore punk are all accelerated and instigated into an inescapable payload of death aimed straight at the vital sinews of humanity. A sonic maelstrom churned into shape by an onslaught of obscure violent riffs, psychotic leads and ominous laughter which, parallel to a pulverizing drum performance, emanates from oblivion with an antediluvian, negative aura. Comparisons to bands like Diocletian, Heresiarch, Tetragrammacide and Nuclearhammer will run abound, yet these would be only easy superficial conjectures as this is a manifestation of sonic extremism which dwells on a plain of excellence entirely its own. Its uniqueness transpires particularly in the maniacal drumming which underlines the band's hardcore and punk influences, and is exalted further by an unusually crystalline production and by a masterful onslaught of uber-audible riffs hiding behind nothing and seemingly going in the opposite direction of the homogenous and indiscernible sensorial smothering the genre usually opts to go in.




DIABOLIC OATH: Esoteric Black/Death Metal Sorcerers Unleash Bludgeoning New MLP “Aischrolatreia” - Tracks Premiered at CVLT Nation and Decibel Magazine.

Portland, OR-based bestial esoteric black/death metal sorcerers Diabolic Oath are back with another annihilating chapter in their unrelenting conquest of the outer limits of total sonic bedlam. This time the experimental extreme metal trio return with the "Aischrolatreia" MLP, a prelude to their forthcoming sophomore full-length album which offers another glimpse into the band's unique and hallucinatory formula of barbaric occult war metal and unconventional fretless instrumentation and composition.

The opening track from the work “Thrones Before Slobbering Gods” was previously unveiled by CVLT Nation to coincide with the band’s 2022 spring West Coast tour, with the notorious underground blog stating that the work is “an aural war of unprecedented traits”. While this week the track “Swathed in Aberrant Flesh” has been revealed by Decibel Magazine.

The twenty-four minute, five-song esoteric weapon of mass annihilation delivers a churning and abysmal onslaught of warped, tectonic hallucinations, with the band designing seemingly impossible and highly cerebral trajectories with their respective instruments while the load of death emanating from these plague-ridden conjurations crushes the listener down with merciless abandon into complete aural carnage. With "Aischrolatreia" Diabolic Oath have proven once again of being one of the most transformative and unconventional forces in extreme metal, with their undisputed talents as virtuosic musicians being lent with staggering vision and imagination to one of the most animalistic and inhuman manifestations of extreme metal being forged today.

Diabolic Oath was begotten in Portland, Oregon in late 2017 by the will of The Temple and of Ominous Void. Almost immediately, Cthonian Incursor was summoned to join, providing blasphemous vitriol and unholy thunderous percussion. The trio soon recorded the first offering, MMXVIII, and began the first incursions of unforgettably bleak and bludgeoning live rituals. Soon after, the band began writing new material which coalesced to become their mind-bending and flesh-battering first full-length album, Profane Death Exodus to be released in 2020 by Sentient Ruin. To make this album it was decided early on to implement the unique and unorthodox approach of fretless bass and guitar instruments combined with a triple vocal attack delivered by all members of the group, often simultaneously, to harness something unseen and unheard of before then in extreme metal, and completely ungovernable and unhinged. The band’s sound at this point began to flow as free-form sonic death ritual, beginning to assume abominable and experimental traits, and yielding an imposing sound drenched in lawlessness and chaos. Around the same time an anonymous, ritualistic approach to the live setting was adopted, incorporating in live perfomances meditations on death accompanied by obscure offerings, to further shape the creature’s essence in a realm of mysticism, chaos, and absurdity. The sound of Diabolic Oath is the culmination of a meticulous distillation of influences and styles ranging from black, death, and war metal to doom, and with certain influences (new and old) such as Teitanblood, Morbid Angel, and Bestial Warlust creeping into the mix alternating more pronounced references to more subtle ones. The band has worked tirelessly to carve its Diabolic path, playing shows to support high-caliber underground acts across the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Mexico. With the debut full-length, Profane Death Exodus, the band is poised to conquer, destroy, and seal the oath!

VEL'HAR: Germany-Based Chilean Black Metal Entity Issues Debut MLP On Vinyl Via Sentient Ruin - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Available.

We are proud to announce that Chile-born and now Germany-based scourging black metal plague Vel'Har joins Sentient Ruin for a much awaited and long anticipated vinyl release of its 2020 light-consuming debut MLP "Letanía I", to be released August 19 2022 on limited edition 10” vinyl and digital formats, all pre-order able now via all our channels.

On the wretched offering cryptic mastermind H.S.V.H. unfolds two monstrous black metal blades adorned by three interludes to invoke an unholy sonic siege upon the ridicule of life and the purity of christendom. Baptized under the pentagram and spewn from the unholy jaws of oblivion, these five tracks sprawl and hiss like a horrifying morass of snakes, consuming reality and devouring everything in the wake of a monstrous tide of venom. The rawness and violence of these riffs is evident, but so is the ritualistic and esoteric majesty emanating from its death-scarred aura; an infernal force summoned as a liturgy or rite of passage toward a higher meaning and other form of existence. And that form is Satan's triumph, the zenith toward which every moving part of this wretched crucible converges. His glory as beacon and conduit of pestilent krafts conceived with the malefic design of insulting life and transporting the listener deep inside twisted and inverted dimensions of infinite dissolution and complete insanity.

”Vel'Har” means "permanent altered state of consciousness", a word which materialized from a vision, in a meditative state. Asking what the state is called, such word was uttered from the void of trance…. This state is achieved through the preparation of the being for transcendence, as such those who delve must be prepared to know how to recognize the limits of "reality”. Vel'Har is the reflection of one’s self, of their fears, of their insecurities, of what you do not want to know or see, but which is there... Lurking... Waiting for you to fail, to show you what reality, really is. A form of transcendental blessing, or curse, based on how it may be interpreted, that will accompany you in eternity… You can embrace it, learn and grow from its glory by accepting it as part of you... Or deny it and pay its price in perpetuity.

Vel'Har was initially envisioned from the southern and hostile lands of southern Chile around 2010 under the constellation of HSVH and IAAG, in an attempt to channel and capture those experiences acquired in altered states of consciousness, dreams, astral travel and the ritual work in "the black Lodge" thus challenging the limits of sanity and reality, in search of full knowledge, delivering in a purist way a collection of spells that would awaken the darkest sensations in those who hear and understand the true call… Vel’Har did not however actually see the light until 2019, when HSVH relocated to Germany and in doing so decided to bring the project with him and finally give it life after it had lingered for years lost somewhere in conscious memory. With the main support of Lord Valtgryftåke and Keikruk 13th Temple / Gryftigæn and Mahanvantara Arts Records, its first offering "Letanía I" was assembled at Temple of Rudrah Studios, being subsequently initially released by Mahanvantara Arts Records in tape format limited to only 30 copies. The wretched debut offering sent a shockwave ravaging through the European black metal underground, thus Sentient Ruin stepped in to release the work unto and exclusive vinyl release enhanced with new artwork created by BMS Ilustration and inspired by the symbolism of the chalice and the sacrifice of innocence, a released aimed only at select group of perverse devotees of true Luciferianism. "Letanía I" ‘s oppressive, raw, and impetuous sound catapults the listener back to the 90's, reminding them of the ancestral black metal glory established by bands like Opfermod or early Watain, emphasizing the genre’s darkness and oppressive inclinations with a masterful aural conjuring of unrelenting yet dynamic riffing and tortured vocals that create and otherworldly and surreal atmosphere that celebrates the authenticity of black metal and the dismemberment of the soul and self.

THE LOUSY: East Coast Raw Punk/Thrash Metal Squadron Issue Incinerating Debut Demo Tape - Full Stream and Pre-orders Available.

We’re proud to announce our partnership with Boston, MA's speed metal/raw hardcore punk force The Lousy (featuring members of local Boston crust savages Instinct? And D-Sagawa) who bring us their incinerating debut demo tape "Shut Up I'm Talking!!!!", five tracks of blown out, neck-breaking and incendiary thrash-punk war. A firestorm of raw aggression and pulverizing intensity pours out these unrelenting fourteen minutes and seventeen seconds of unseen rage and ferocity, underlining a fearless and commanding songwriting and displaying an uncompromising vision that goes far beyond the mere sum of its parts and influences. Referencing legendary acts like Motörhead, early Metallica, Slayer, Discharge, Cro-Mags, Siege, Hellnation and Cryptic Slaughter, with this already classic and iconic debut demo tape, The Lousy have unleashed one of the most intense and visceral syncretisms of punk and metal destruction the East Coast's underground has seen in years.

The Lousy emerged around 2021 from the ashes of local d-beat crust marauders D-Sagawa, in a punk house in Boston, MA. Dan from local crust maniacs Instinct? moved in the house with the remaining D-Sagawa ex-members and this is when all the roommates began to throw around ideas for a faster and more metal-influenced and reckless new project that would be more thrash oriented and which had as primary inspiration bands like Bolt Thrower, Metallica, Slayer, Sacrilege, and Morbid Saint. The band's sound was further inevitably influenced by the band's close-knit life style of punks and friends living together "in a crazy punk house" with the songs lyrically and thematically "about being maniacs, the love for thrash metal and being evil". The band's debut demo "Shut Up I'm Talking!!!!” (titled this way for vocalist Jess' dislike of hearing people talking over them) was digitally self-released on the band's Bandcamp in early 2022 and immediately attracted attention with its break-neck intensity, commanding songwriting, and blown out raw production. Shortly after its digital self-release, Canadian punk tape label Sore Mind released the cassette in Canada featuring original artwork done by vocalist Jess Campbell, while Sentient Ruin released an American version of the cassette with the same artwork xeroxed and with a different graphic layout.




EXALTATION: New Zealand Dark Death Metal Horde Announce Immense Debut Album "Under Blind Reasoning" - Track Premiered at Toilet Ov Hell

We are honored to welcome into our family obscure New Zealand based death metal terrorscapers Exaltation, an elusive band emerged from the elite of their country’s extreme metal underground with debut album “Under Blind Reasoning”, a towering beast over five years in the making.

Leading up to the record’s long awaited release, the closing track from the monstrous album has been revealed by illustrious extreme metal blog Toilet Ov Hell (and in collaboration with the famed Death Metal Promotion YouTube channel) who in introducing the song “Divider of Redemption” has remarked how the track “is a monstrosity emerged from the abyss, part doom, part dissonance, all foreboding. It’s like Grave Miasma by way of Incantation, touching on the former’s blackened death mastery and the latter’s umbral delivery. It is dark, it is devastating, it is vile, and it is glorious“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.

After a long silence New Zealand bestial death metal horde Exaltation finally unveil their first proper full-length offering, "Under Blind Reasoning", after a demo tape had surfaced back in 2017 amongst generalized obscurity. Indeed what we find on this debut offering is something distant from the lo-fi quality of the promising but under-produced demo, and sees the band tap instead into a realm of vehemence and aural destruction of unseen magnitude and terror. Feral, enveloping, monumental and sprawling in its unrelenting wrath, "Under Blind Reasoning" sees the obscure New Zealand death-bringers whip the sum of their influences (Immolation, Morbid Angel, Incantation, Deicide, Blasphemy) into a coercive realm of shelshocking torment and rise from the depths of obscurity like a cataclysmic weapon of mass-destruction. The album's dense and multidimensional recording quality (courtesy of engineers Raj Singarajah and Cam Sinclair along by mastering from Luke Finlay of Primal Mastering) has yielded a death metal beast of truly unsettling proportions. Every instrument and the utter violence with which it is wielded appears on full display, as the listener is helplessly left annihilated, blow after to blow, to witness the band's tight, savage and merciless performance and technical proficiency literally maul down the fabric of reality piece by piece. These are death metal songs from a realm of perpetual darkness that bare a load of death and ruin of unprecedented traits. Songs of boundless terror and oblivion that evoke eons of darkness and an immanent and oppressive presage of complete inevitability as the music roars out of the speakers with ominous grimness and near-weaponized violence. All hail the realm of darkness and death conceived by Exaltation, one where the death metal craft is reborn as a feral ungovernable force to inflict merciless ruin unto this mortal plane and all that dares to attempt to exist within it.  

Exaltation are by all means one of their nation’s rising extreme metal forces, surely destined to share their country’s highest underground ranks with other notorious local death dealers like Heresiarch, Vesicant and the such. Exaltation started in early 2013 with Mort on guitar, Aaron Baylis on drums and his brother Nathan Baylis on bass. The band started off playing black metal primarily influenced by bands like Clandestine Blaze and Dødheimsgard's Kronet Til Konge album. Around 2015 Exaltation’s members had ammassed further influences and refined the band’s vision further, becoming a more focused and violent project and changing direction into a more black/death metal style. Nathan Baylis switched from bass to guitar in 2015 and started writing more for the band, a change which contributed to the change in musical direction. Al Cunningham joined Exaltation early 2016 to fill Nathan’s place on bass, also becoming the vocalist later on that year. A year later Exaltaion's first demo was recorded in March/April 2017 with a consolidated lineup of Aaron Baylis on drums, Al Cunningham on bass and vocals, Mort on guitar, and Nathan on guitar. The demo was DIY recorded within the band’s confines with Nathan Baylis tracking and mixing jointly handled by Mort and Nathan. It was this demo which captured the attention of Sentient Ruin and which subsequently brought the two parties in contact via the mediation of Heresiarch’s vocalist N.H.. Label and band thus agreed to remain in touch as events took their natural course. Exaltation subsequently went dormant as they quietly envisioned and executed their first debut full-length offering over the next several years. The debut full length album Under Blind Reasoning was finally recorded between November 2020 and march 2021 by Raj Singarajah, mixed by Cam Sinclair of Dymanic Rage, and mastered by Luke Finlay of Primal Mastering. During the album’s recording sessions with Singarajah, Mort and Nathan experienced a shift in inspiration and vision for the band and were able to develop their sound further and experiment with different ideas, adding a much deeper and darker atmosphere to the music, a lengthily, patient and meticolous but natural process which in the end yielded one of the most caclysmic and majestic dark death metal releases to ever see the light on New Zealand soil. Exaltation’s bleak, unforgiving and merciless aura is further shaped by Cunningham’s lyrics which deal with themes of struggle and suffering amongst modern society and its constant flaws, downfalls, and sudden shifts. Under Blind Reasoning was released on CD/LP/MC/Digital In July 2022 via Sentient Ruin as a crowning achiemevemnt in New Zealand extreme metal.

CLAVICVLA: Italian Black Ambient / Death Industrial Beast Returns With Third Album "Degeneracy of the 5th Density" - Track Premiered at Everything Is Noise.

We’re very proud to renew our years-long perverse partnership we have with Italian black ambient / death industrial demon CLAVICVLA. "Degeneracy of the 5th Density", the wretched third full-length album from the Italian soundscaping death-dealer, will be released in collaboration with Cyclic Law July 22 2022.

Coinciding with the album’s announcement the track “Dead Bishop” has been revealed by always poignant underground music blog Everything Is Noise, who have remarked how "‘Dead Bishop’ presents CLAVICVLA in the act’s finest form, having refined its craft throughout its existence and earlier two albums. The ambiance-heavy, meditative pathos found here is otherwordly, conveying mental images of horrors and dreads both bodily and cosmic proportions while advancing in low-frequency tremors and constant hums, capable of inducing nightmarish state of being." - you can check the full feature HERE.

One of the earliest and first experimental/ambient projects to join the ranks of Sentient Ruin and turn it into the multi-headed abomination we strive to be(come), Italian black ambient/death industrial demon Clavicvla is back with its most perverse and deranged work yet, once again in proud partnership with illustrious French ambient/industrial colleagues Cyclic Law. From the artwork to the titles and themes, the intent of new full-length offering "Degeneracy of the 5th Density" is clear: worshiping and glorifying perversions, deviancy and immorality in their every form and shape. With these nefarious intents sole mastermind Ittiel has orchestrated the rise of this third aural plague of his around a creeping miasma of monstrous sepulchral ambience reeking from the ruptured bowels of oblivion, unfolding a forty-five minute sonic nightmare of absolutely omnipotent repulsiveness.

Corroding reality like a biblical plague, Ittiel has invoked these eight tracks of nefarious black ambient bedlam from a putrid death-scarred fog begotten of hell, conceptualizing its inverted spawn with blood freezing synthesis and a regurgitation of deconstructed soundscapes and wretched utterings hissing blasphemies from beyond the mortal plane. Dark ambient, black industrial, ritual drone, noise and subsonic horrors of all kinds are distilled by the demiurge into a sonic morass of total suffering and terror, and ritualized into a soundtrack to every broken soul's most hidden, vile and foul impulses. As usual cryptic and hermetically malignant in its bestial craft, it is not entirely clear or discernible what Ittiel's broken mind has conceived lyrically and thematically speaking in this new chapter of his abominable creation, but one can rest assured that immeasurable dissolution and abandon into the most depraved depths of perversion remain the ultimate prize of these noisome incantations that insult life and innocence at the most humiliating extremes imaginable.

Conceived in 2017 by recluse Italian black metal artist Ittiel, Clavicvla represents the artist's moral, spiritual, corporal, and human dissolution, and his transition from his initial artistic earthly form into immaterial and full-fledged abstract horror, to mirror the newly acquired reflection of himself - the transition itself triggered by Ittiel's morbid and sanity-defying fascination with satanism, acosmism, and the cult of death. Clavicvla as such was formed as a ritual vessel, to disintegrate and transition Ittiel's physical existence itself from the corporal world to pure dread and emptiness. Ittiel has stated that he puts together the sounds of Clavicvla to dismantle and annihilate his corporal self in an attempt to embrace, and become one with, the absolute void, and break the endless loop of life and death by instead derailing existence into senseless chaos and entropy. As such Clavicvla is for Ittiel liberation of consciousness, to assume his true and perceived form, bound by nothing and shaped solely by his own unbeing.